Dennis Lehane Collection: Sacred, Gone Baby Gone, Prayers for Rain

Kenzie & Gennaro #3-5

by Dennis Lehane, Robert Lawrence (Read by), Thomas J.S. Brown (Read by)

Sacred (read by Robert Lawrence, directed by J.C. Howe, engineered by Kim King) Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks. So has the first investigator hired to find her: Jay Becker, Patrick's mentor. Gone Baby Gone (read by Robert Lawrence, directed by Bill Weideman, engineered by Jeremy Spanos) Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro have been hired to find a six-year-old girl who vanished from her home without a trace. Despite enormous public attention, extensive news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation has gone nowhere. But it's a case rife with sinister circumstances: a strangely indifferent mother, a pedophile couple, a bizarre subculture of homeless parents, and a shadowy police unit with a covert agenda and no qualms about enforcing it. Prayers for Rain (read by Thomas J.S. Brown, directed by Sandra Burr, engineered by Jill Sovis) Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids. But despite their problems, they join forces to close down a predator whose modus operandi seems to put him beyond the law. This killer's insidious murder weapon is within his victim's mind: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation that drives his targets to kill themselves.

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First published February 28, 2002

About the author

Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.

Reviews

[Balaji Rathakrishnan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series of books is by the author who is better known for writing Mystic River, a novel that was made into a gripping movie. I never read Mystic River, but somehow stumbled into his earlier less known books featuring the detective partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.

Dennis Lehane sets his novels in his home town Boston, and writes with the intimacy of someone who knows every nook and cranny of the city that he clearly loves. The early stories are set in the blue collar neighnourhood where Patrick and Angela grew up, a place rife with so many stories - mostly dark and violent. Dennis Lehane's writing style is raw and in-your-face and devilishly entertaining. He mixes his ingredients - ranging from complicated long-term friendships to race relations, gang wars and serial murders - with an audacity that is at times kitschy, but mostly just good rollicking fun.

[Lefty · Rating 5 out of 5]

CLASSIC! He really depicts a deep story of the city I come from. Boston standup!

[J.W. Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

for GONE BABY GONE - wonderfully written as always. I was stuck reading for long periods wanting to find out what happened next. Another excellent , gripping read

[Kris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dennis Lehane is one of the best! All of these are filled with suspense, sarcasm, and a thrilling storyline.

[Suzie Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love anything by Dennis Lahane! Especially the Angie and Patrick series. Gritty, over-the-top, lots of serial killers, insane criminals, drug dealers, ex-cons, etc. Great for a long flight or the pool.

[Erinne Bruce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very edge of your seat thriller

[Glenn Strohl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great, fast action set in Boston. Recommend Highly

[Gina · Rating 1 out of 5]

It started feeling like a comic strip and
I couldn't finish it.

[Valerie West · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun books to read! Loved them.

[Cynthia Sizemore · Rating 3 out of 5]

this wasn't my kind of book.the title sounded good but I wasn't crazy about it.it was ritten well but I just couldn't get into it.

[Tisha Loranger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the characters. Fighting for the "right" thing

[Doyle Mclendon · Rating 3 out of 5]

awesome series. I feel like lehane really exposed some truths about just human, how primitive, and how dedicated we can be.